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Sir Sable Island the September 11 1832

Please to pay into the Savings Bank for me Fifty pounds of the amount of your rate to me this year and at the Commencement of the new year please to pay in to the same transfer [illegible] Balance of wages may be due me for the present year service taking as much of the note of hand also as will make that Balance as equal to fifty pounds and you will much oblige sir your most humble obedient servant. John Hodgson

To E. Wallace & Co
Halifax NS